Budget Socket AM3: Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P Mainboard Review. Page 6

[06/24/2009 03:48 PM | Mainboards]
by Ilya Gavrichenkov

It becomes quite real to put together an inexpensive system on AMD Phenom II or Athlon II processors equipped with DDR3 SDRAM. This type of memory has already become affordable enough, and Gigabyte managed to come up with a Socket AM3 mainboard for DDR3 at a very modest price point. Read more in our review!

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Testbed Configuration

Our testbeds used for performance and overclocking experiments were built with the following hardware and software components:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X2 550 (Callisto, 3.1 GHz, 2 x 512 KB L2, 6 MB L3).
Mainboards:
- Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Socket AM3, AMD 790FX + SB750, DDR3 SDRAM);
- Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P (Socket AM3, AMD 770 + SB710, DDR3 SDRAM).
CPU cooler: Scythe Mugen (Infinity).
Memory: Mushkin 996601 4GB XP3-12800 (2 x 2 GB, DDR3-1600 SDRAM, 8-8-8-24).
Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 4890.
HDD: Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS.
PSU: Tagan SuperRock TG880-U33II.
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x86 SP2.
Drivers: ATI Catalyst 9.5 Display Driver.

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